Will Validity and Capacity in Practice Online Conference
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Date: 8 July 2026
Starts: 1:45 pm
Ends: 5:00 pm
Location: Webinar
Cost: £249 + VAT
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This practical half-day online conference, delievered by The Legal Training Consultancy, brings together members of our highly regarded Wills & Trusts team to examine the key issues that arise when wills are challenged, defended or investigated.
The conference will focus not only on the legal principles, but also on the practical steps practitioners can take to reduce risk, strengthen evidence, head off disputes where possible, and deal effectively with challenges when they arise.
Questions about will validity, testamentary capacity and suspicious circumstances continue to give rise to some of the most difficult and sensitive disputes in private client practice. These cases often involve grieving families, disputed memories, incomplete records, allegations of pressure or impropriety, and estates where the financial and emotional stakes are high.
The conference will cover:
– How to head off will disputes before they escalate – Alex Troup KC
– Testamentary capacity: assessing, recording and challenging capacity in practice – Daniel Soar
– Knowledge and approval: suspicious circumstances and practical evidential issues – Francesca D’Argenio
– Undue influence in will disputes: proving pressure, coercion and vulnerability – Oliver Wooding
– Fraudulent calumny: poisoning the testator’s mind and the evidential challenges – Annie Sampson
– Insolvent estates: practical and legal issues for private client practitioners – Ben Harwood
– Deeds of variation: opportunities, risks and common pitfalls – Jack Pankhurst
– Forgery and false wills: identifying, pleading and proving the allegation – Chris Jones
Georgina Thompson as Chair.
Price: £249 + VAT per organisation, covering up to 20 colleagues at no extra cost.
Small firm rate: £99 + VAT for firms with four or fewer partners.
Special offer: Book now and save £50 with the promo code 50voucher
You can watch live or view the recording whenever convenient. In either case, you will receive the complete recording after the event.
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Alex Troup KC
- Call: 1998
- Silk: 2023
Alex is Head of our Wills & Trusts team and is recognised for his impressive chancery practice. He is the only silk ranked in private wealth outside of London in the High Net Worth Guide 2025. Alex specialises...
Christopher Jones
- Call: 2004
Christopher is a chancery and commercial specialist with particular emphasis on trust litigation and advice, contentious and non-contentious probate applications, real property litigation (particularly in relation to easements, restrictive covenants and contracts for the sale of land) and...
Oliver Wooding
- Call: 2009
Oliver has a specialist practice that focuses on wills and trusts, and real estate matters, and the overlap between them. He is regularly instructed as an advocate, advisor, and mediator in a wide range of disputes. Recent cases...
Annie Sampson
- Call: 2015
Annie is a specialist chancery barrister and a trained mediator. Annie’s practice focuses predominantly on wills and trusts and property disputes. Accordingly, Annie has considerable experience of a broad range work in both areas including, for example, trusts...
Daniel Soar
- Call: 2016
Daniel has an established chancery practice – covering the traditional areas of probate, property and trusts – appearing regularly in the High Court, County Court and Property Tribunals. As part of his probate practice, Daniel frequently advises on...
Georgina Thompson
- Call: 2017
Georgina is an experienced junior barrister specialising in commercial law and wills and trusts disputes. She has a developed a practice focused on resolving complex legal disputes by providing clear, practical, and sensitive advice to a wide range...
Jack Pankhurst
- Call: 2021
Jack is a specialist commercial and chancery barrister and a trained mediator. His practice spans the breadth of commercial disputes, including company and insolvency; contractual disputes; offshore work; wills and trust litigation; professional negligence claims; property matters; and...
Ben Harwood
- Call: 2022
Ben provides representation and advice in all main areas of commercial and chancery law. Ben regularly appears in both the County Court and High Court undertaking procedural hearings, including including strike out, summary judgment and disclosure; enforcement applications,...
Francesca D'Argenio
- Call: 2023
Francesca is a barrister with a broad commercial and chancery practice. Francesca accepts instructions across the spectrum of commercial and chancery work, including wills and trusts, commercial and insolvency, landlord and tenant and real property. Her court work...
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